 | Charles Brooks - Christian life - 1828 - 424 pages
...is the messenger of God. DECEMBER 7. In which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. IF all the parts of the sacred volume are not equally easy of comprehension, there is more need that... | |
 | George Thomas Chapman - Sermons, American - 1828 - 424 pages
...collisions of Christians, there are unquestionably •" some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest as they do also the other scriptures unto their own destruction." But remember that were it possible to gain tho most accurate knowledge of their true nature and character,... | |
 | 1828 - 828 pages
...speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard .to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with... | |
 | 1828 - 502 pages
...following passage. " In which Epistles there are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction." The apostle here, does not assert, (as our Roman Catholic brethren would wish us to believe,) that... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - Apologetics - 1828 - 832 pages
...epistles, speaking of these things, in which are smne things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, as they do also THE OTHER SCRIPTURES, unto their own destruction. Thus we have the divinely-inspired authors of the Christian revelation, endowed confessedly with miraculous... | |
 | Richard Whately - Bible - 1828 - 352 pages
...once, and invent a safe religion of our own ; for hear but St. Peter's words : — " which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." So that if this inference is to be drawn at all, from the danger to the... | |
 | Richard Warner - Sermons, English - 1828 - 476 pages
...which St. Peter alludes in his second general Epistle,) and which, the latter Apostle says, " they that are unlearned and unstable " wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, " to their own destruction ;" among these difticult texts, I repeat, may be reckoned tho.se which treat... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1829 - 544 pages
...speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction." (2 Peter iii. 15, 16.) 2. It is not improbable, that among those things spoken by St. Paul, which are... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler - Future punishment - 1829 - 192 pages
...epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are somethings hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." The sense in which destruction 2d. Peter, iii. 7, 16. is predicated of the wicked has already been... | |
 | Richard Biscoe - 1829 - 638 pages
...363. ing in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Although the apostle Peter was guilty of dissimulation at Antioch1 through fear of the Jews which came... | |
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And account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things... 
